acase@tulane.edu / This paper weaves together theory and research in the areas of musicology, dance studies, gender studies, art, history, science, and philosophy. The author makes the claim that a post-modern treatment of the body in the arts has political implications. The paper explains how sound-movement reciprocity reveals the body’s innate capacity to shape itself and the environment. The dissolution of constructed identities, including the ostensible categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ make way for the ‘intentional body’ — a philosophy of being, in which the mind and body are indistinct from one another. Exemplifying the performative nature of identity and destabilizing normative understandings of gender, race, and nationality, Grace Jones is included as the practical application, or living representation, of this phenomenon. The culmination of the author’s research is a pedagogical book of piano études based on the theories of Rudolf Laban and Sonata 9, a multi-media, interdisciplinary dance performance, which is discussed at the end of the paper. / 1 / Sean Knapp

Šiame darbe nagrinėjama problema: kokių muzikinių gebėjimų ir žinių reikia šokio pedagogikos studentams studijų metu ir šokio pedagogams jų praktinėje, profesinėje veikloje. Tyrimo objektas – šokio mokytojų muzikinis ugdymas. Siekiamas darbo tikslas – analizuoti šokio mokytojų muzikinio ugdymo ypatumus per pasirinktą kokybinio aprašomojo tyrimo strategiją. Siekiant atskleisti tiriamąjį reiškinį, atlikta šokio pedagogikos studentų ir absolventų apklausa raštu, vykdyti giluminiai interviu, analizuoti šokio pedagogų ugdymo ir darbo gaires reglamentuojantys dokumentai, atliktos keturių tiriamųjų įstaigų studijų programų analizės. / The object of this research thesis is the musical education of dance teachers, i.e. which musical skills and knowledge are necessary for students of dance pedagogy as well as for dance teachers in their activities. The main purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate specific aspects pertaining to the musical education of dance teachers, including regulatory documents, curricula, needs analyses, and also the congruity of these aspects. Data were collected through a written survey of dance pedagogy students and graduates, in-depth interviews, document analysis of study programs at the four institutions of higher learning that offer dance education in Lithuania, and a review of documents, which regulate the work and education of dance teachers.